Author: William English WallingPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265190814
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Excerpt from State Socialism: Pro and Con; Official Documents and Other Authoritative Selections Showing the World-Wide Replacement of Private by Governmental Industry Before and During the War The terms State Socialism and collectivism are em ployed with several meanings. But they are chiefly used to mean the policy of extending the economic functions of the State. When the larger and more important economic functions of a nation are operated by its government that nation has adopted State Social ism. When a nation has consistently and deliberately enacted measures leading in this direction, and when the regime of State Socialism is so near that no radical turning aside is probable, that nation may be said to have adopted a State Socialist policy. Is every economic activity of a government to be viewed as a step in the direction of collectivism or State Socialism? Cer tainly not. Every sovereign government has military and police functions, and these always have an economic aspect. All mili tary departments produce at least some part of the munitions of war. Most of them produce a large part of their military supplies. A government which changes its policy of producing only a small part of these supplies, and undertakes - as the United States is doing today - to produce a somewhat larger part is merely adopting the usual custom of governments. This is certainly not collectivism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
